“The answer is, yes it does matter,” says Joy Johnson, president of Simon Fraser University. “A university degree carries with it exceptional career prospects, higher pay and it opens a person’s mind to the realm of the possible and pushes the boundaries of the seemingly impossible.”
There are many careers that are simply unattainable without a university degree, including jobs in health, the sciences, technology, business, law and education. There is also a perception that universities are a place where you can explore ideas from a variety of perspectives and that you are free to do so.
Johnson joined a Conversation That Matters about the complex, diverse and critical role of universities in our economy and society.
To bad they have turned into diploma farms where conversations are shunned.